Fatty Foods make you ill

If you get a large quantity of fat in your diet, your immune system will deteriorate and you will get infections much easier than if you would eat a low fat diet. Follow the food pyramid guidelines and eat a diet low in fat, limit the solid fat and eat unsaturated fat and stay healthy. [...]

Health Benefits of Cinnamon

The traditional Food Pyramid, does not include herbs and spices. However, the Ayurvedic diet recognizes herbs and spices for their many health benefits, especially the benefits of cinnamon. Recent studies show several positive health benefits of cinnamon, but its secrets have been known for centuries. Cinnamon is one of the oldest known spices and grows [...]

Healthy Breakfast?

Do you think that cereal with sweetened yogurt, juice and sandwiches is a healthy breakfast? Well, it’s not as healthy as you might think. You can do better than that. Processed Breakfast Cereals, juices and white bread are processed foods that often contain added sugars. The sugar level is very desirable, because it is a [...]

Carrots – Better Coocked Whole “Al Dente” or Raw?

Carrots falls under the vegetable food group and they carry many nutritional benefits.  To get most out of your carrots researchers now urge us to stop chopping the carrots before they are cooked or you will lose 25% of the anti-cancer compound Falcarinol. Anti-cancer compound Falcarinol The importance of Falcarinol was discovered in February 2005, [...]

Frozen or Fresh – fruits and vegetables?

Fruits and vegetables are all part of the Food Pyramid, but is it better to eat fresh instead of frozen fruits and vegetables? If you look at the nutritional properties, there is little difference. In some cases there are even more nutrients in frozen than in fresh foods. Often, fresh and frozen vegetables contain almost [...]

BMI (Body Mass Index) and Cancer

Keep a healthy body weight and reduce the risk of developing cancer. One out of six cancer cases could have been avoided, if the whole population had a healthy body weight. This conclusion is made by researchers from American Cancer Society, who have studied the correlation between body weight and cancer. The research team believes [...]

Beautiful and Healthy with Miracle Foods

We spend a lot of money to look beautiful and be healthy, but you don’t need to do that. You don’t need to waste any more money on expensive anti-wrinkle creams, anti-inflammatory creams, eye drops to relieve redness, hair products to make your hair beautiful, medicines to stay healthy etc. Save your money! Here is [...]

Control Your Blood Sugar Level

It is two o’clock and you feel tired and have difficulty concentrating. Your blood sugar has now dropped to a level where it begins to control your actions. The body requires energy, NOW. You’re looking in your desk drawers and feel relief when you find a candy bar. But why do you go for the [...]

The Antioxidants in Coffee may prevent Dementia

Three to five cups of coffee per day reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer’s later in life by more than 50%. A Swedish-Finnish study, published in January 2009, singled out coffee as an effective weapon against dementia. The study found a clear association between drinking coffee and reduced risk of dementia. People who had been [...]

Colorful food keeps you healthy

In times of crisis it is important to control stress. It is also important to to have a healthy lifestyle and to eat nutrition rich food.  By including as many colors in your diet as possible, you automatically create a healthy habit. The different colors in your food help with different health conditions in your [...]

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