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1. | Anti-Aging Diet
As we age, we are faced with a reduced metabolism, memory loss, wrinkles, increased risk for chronic diseases, and a sagging body; not exactly wonderful things to look forward to. Believe it or not, making some changes in your diet and lifestyle ...
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2. | Snack and Lose Weight
Snacking can be part of a balanced and healthy diet as long as the snacks do not consist of empty calories. If you want to indulge in snacking, do so carefully. It is very easy to choose high-calorie, high-fat, and high-sugar foods. ...
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3. | Lose Weight Quickly
Many of us need to lose weight but do not know how to get started. The thought of putting limitations on the food we eat can be disheartening. However, keeping our bodies at a healthy weight by following a healthy diet ...
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4. | Increase Your Metabolism and Lose Weight
When our main source of energy, our blood sugar, runs low, the process of metabolism turns our body fat into energy. When our supply of blood sugar runs high, the process of metabolism stores excess energy by turning it ...
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5. | Best Diet for You
Because there are so many different diet options available on the market today, it is extremely difficult to find a healthy diet plan right for you. Some plans force you to limit your carbohydrate intake, some force you to reduce fat, and some require ...
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6. | Natural Remedies for Flu and the Common Cold
When you have a cold or the flu, what is the first thing you do? Do you head for the drugstore to choose from a myriad of cold and flu medications? The best you can hope for is ...
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7. | Fish and Poultry for Good Health
If you, like many people, are trying to cut down on your dietary fat intake, selecting fish and poultry instead of beef and pork can be a healthy choice. Fish and poultry are the best choices for people who want to keep meat in ...
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8. | Eat to Lose Weight + Live Longer
Eating a nutritious diet and getting enough physical activity can reduce your risk of many diseases and help you live a longer, healthier life. Heart disease, some types of cancer, obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes can be prevented or controlled simply by following a ...
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9. | Food Cravings and Weight Loss
We all have them; food cravings that jeopardize our efforts to lose weight and our long-term health. Why, because the cravings are nearly always for foods that are high in sugar, salt, fat and calories. What causes food cravings, why do we ...
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10. | Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in women; the first is lung cancer. There are many risks for breast cancer that can be reduced by making some changes in your diet and lifestyle.
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11. | How Diet Affects Disease
What you eat can determine how healthy you are. A nutritionally healthy and complete diet can reduce and even prevent many diseases and conditions including many types of cancer and heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
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12. | Weight Loss and Breakfast
Most people think that if they skip breakfast, it will help them lose weight. Actually, the opposite occurs. If you deprive your body of food in the morning, it will shift into starvation mode and burn fewer calories, resulting in a slower metabolism.
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13. | Lose Weight By Walking
Aerobic (also called cardiovascular exercise) exercise is a type of exercise that uses continuous, smooth, rhythmic movements. These movements strengthen your heart and lungs and force your body to breathe more deeply, increasing the transport of oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to ...
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14. | Whole Grains for Good Health
A nutritious and healthy diet is the basis for optimum health and energy. To assure good health, you should incorporate abundant amounts of whole grains into your daily diet. The nutrients in whole grains help promote good overall health and help ...
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15. | Bowel Movements and Cancer
Believe it or not, the very foundation of good health is having regular bowel movements. When your body has a bowel movement it is removing the build-up of toxins, toxins that are the pre-cursors to ...
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16. | Treat Your Allergies Naturally
The most effective, least expensive, and healthiest treatment for allergies is always avoidance, yet many people will choose medications and vaccinations, despite their dangers and drawbacks. There are many methods to help with avoidance. Using any of these methods is helpful in treating your allergies.
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17. | Beta-Carotene – Cancer Fighter
Our body's cells are constantly in competition with substances called free radicals. Free radicals can cause untold damage to your body, harming just about everything inside your body. Some free radicals are made inside the body, while others ...
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18. | Benefits of Acupuncture
What is acupuncture? Acupuncture uses small needles inserted at various points on the body to benefit the improvement of many physical health conditions as well as increasing mental clarity. Because oriental medicine uses a holistic approach, acupuncture ...
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19. | Beans for Good Health
A healthy diet should contain plenty of high-nutrient foods: foods that give our bodies good health and reduce our risk of many diseases and conditions. Those foods are fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, beans (legumes), nuts and seeds, ...
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20. | Basic Steps to Good Health
EAT WELL - Eat a well-balanced diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, as well as foods that are high in complex carbohydrates, moderate amounts of protein, and low in fat. Make sure you eat ...
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21. | Aging and Good Nutrition
Aging is the cumulative effect of wear and tear on our cells. As we age, the need for good nutrition is vital in order to provide our cells with the resources they require for optimal maintenance and repair. ...
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22. | Are You An Emotional Eater?
All of us experience occasional emotional eating. Celebrating with food is what birthday parties, holiday parties and cookouts are all about. Sometimes, however, emotional eating becomes something else, something that can lead to serious physical and emotional imbalance in our lives.
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23. | Eat More, Weigh Less
Many of us gain weight this time of year due to the parties and celebrations we participate in, all featuring rich and tempting foods. How can you lose that weight? Believe it or not, you ...
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24. | Binge Eating Disorder
We all overeat occasionally and feel awful because we have stuffed ourselves. Usually, we overeat because it is holiday time, we are at a special occasion like a birthday party or we are upset about something. However, if eating too much happens to you more than occasionally, you may ...
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25. | How to Burn Fat Naturally
There is a secret to burning fat naturally and effectively. The secret is eating the right foods and participating in regular exercise. When you eat correctly and exercise regularly your body becomes an efficient fat-burning machine.
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26. | Family Fitness and Weight Loss
With the epidemic rise in obesity, especially in children, it is necessary to find enjoyable ways to keep ourselves and our children fit and healthy. Exercise and weight loss can be difficult alone but making it a family affair can make all the difference in the world.
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27. | The Practice of Homeopathy
Homeopathy, a health practice that is holistic, has been around for over 200 years. It treats the whole person, not just the part that is injured or in pain. It is based on a system of ...
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28. | The Truth About Hoodia
Authentic hoodia is a rare botanical that grows exclusively in South Africa. There are several compounds in hoodia that help suppress appetite by tricking the brain into thinking you are full, making it a potent weight-loss tool.
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29. | Benefits of the Glycemic Index Diet
The Glycemic Index (GI) measures the effect of foods on your blood sugar levels. Eating foods with a high glycemic index value will raise the blood sugar level a great deal more than foods with a low glycemic index value. This makes them much healthier for the body than ...
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30. | The Best Weight Loss Programs
There are many weight loss programs all promising wonderful results. How do you know which ones, if any, are going to work for you? The main things you should consider are whether or not the diet places too many restrictions on the number of different foods you can eat and/or ...
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31. | Anorexia - Symptoms and Treatments
Anorexia nervousa is an illness that occurs primarily in teenage girls but can occur in boys and adults. It is an eating disorder where people are obsessed with being thin and starve themselves because they are terrified of gaining weight. What is the core cause of anorexia? ...
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32. | Counting Calories to Lose Weight
All the hype about losing weight and burning fat boils down to one simple fact, you must use up more calories than you take in. If you eat more calories than your body needs to function effectively, the additional calories ...
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33. | Antioxidant Foods That Fight Cancer
The cells in our bodies are constantly at war with substances called free radicals. Free radicals are scavengers that cause incredible damage to our bodies. Some free radicals are made inside the body, while others are caused by the food we ingest ...
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34. | Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Inflammation plays a key role in the development of a variety of seemingly unrelated illnesses. What is inflammation? Inflammation is the result of our body's response to an injury or an infection, in other words it is ...
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35. | What Is An Anti-Cancer Diet?
Research has proven not only that cancer is a preventable disease, but also that we have the power to prevent it by making changes in our diet. Yes, you can drastically decrease your risk of being diagnosed with cancer simply by adjusting your diet.
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36. | The Power of Apple Cider Vinegar
Vinegar has been used to cure and prevent a variety of ailments for centuries. As early as the time of Hippocrates, considered by many to be the father of medicine, vinegar was used to treat patients. ...
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37. | Vitamins and Disease Prevention
Do you take a multivitamin every day? Millions of us do. The purpose of a daily multivitamin is to provide supplemental nutritional protection for our body that our daily diet does not provide. However, it does NOT make up for an ...
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38. | Caffeine – Benefits and Risks
Many of us feel like we cannot function without our first cup of coffee in the morning. Why do we feel that way? Does the caffeine in the coffee have a physiological effect on our body? If so, ...
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39. | How to Prevent Heartburn
Millions of us suffer from bouts of heartburn, some more frequently and more painful than others. We reach for the antacid and hope that it helps, the quicker the better. However, there are ways we can reduce the risk of enduring another bout of heartburn.
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40. | How to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain
The Holiday season, for most, is an exciting time of year full of celebrations. Unfortunately, most of the festivities include lots of traditional foods and seasonal treats, most of them rich in fat and calories. It is no wonder we put on weight at this time of year ...
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41. | Benefits of a Mediterranean Diet
The people who live in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea have a significantly decreased incidence of heart disease, chronic diseases, and cancer, and the highest adult life-expectancy rate. All of these health benefits even though the traditional Mediterranean diet ...
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42. | Risks of Dietary Supplements
A dietary supplement is a product that is intended to provide enhancement or improvement to your diet that contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs or other botanicals. It is taken orally as a pill, capsule, or liquid.
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43. | Best Heart-Healthy Diet
Heart disease is the number one cause of death for both men and women in this country. Eating a nutritious healthy diet can reduce the risk factors (high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity) for heart disease. In addition, it will ...
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44. | What IS a Healthy Diet
There is so much information about what is healthy and nutritious these days that it is very difficult to sort out the hype from the truth. Following a healthy diet can be accomplished by making some simple adjustments to your current diet.
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45. | Raising Healthy Children
The popularity of television, video games and the Internet, combined with unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise, has created an epidemic of obesity in our children. The rise in childhood obesity is frightening and ...
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46. | Do Fad Diets Work?
Fad diets are weight loss plans that promise amazingly fast results. They do not offer any sort of long-term plan for success and they are usually very unhealthy, sometimes actually dangerous, for your body.
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47. | Controlling Diabetes Naturally
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or cannot properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that the body needs in order to convert sugar, starch, and other foods into energy. Although the cause of diabetes is not ...
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48. | How to Finally Quit Smoking
More than four hundred and forty thousand people die in the United States each year from smoking. Smoking is directly responsible for causing lung cancer, heart disease, strokes, and pregnancy complications, not to mention contributing to overall poorer ...
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49. | How to Lose Middle-Age Weight Gain
Weight increase in middle-age is very common but it is not inevitable. Unfortunately, it IS extremely easy for weight gain to sneak up on you as you get older. Why do we gain weight as we age? There are several reasons why this happens, ...
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50. | Breast Cancer Prevention
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death, second only to lung cancer. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Fortunately, there are measures you can take ...
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