There are many heart healthy foods and the heart health benefits of fiber, both soluble and insoluble is what we’re about to discuss here. Fiber helps with lowering cholesterol, weight loss in various ways, provides essential benefits for nutrition and can contribute to good health by preventing digestive problems, diabetes and heart disease. What Is… Read More »
What Is Nutrition and Why Is It Important For Health?
What is Nutrition? Nutrition is defined as nourishment or energy that is obtained from consuming foods in healthy quantities. Unfortunately, for many of us, proper nutrition is far from what we get from our daily diet. Eating healthy, ‘nutritious’ foods is important for continued health. We are obsessed with junk food, processed food that comes… Read More »
Blood Pressure Herbs and Herbal Remedies
Herbs Used For Blood Pressure Herbs can be beneficial if you are looking to maintain healthy blood pressure levels. There are several herbal remedies that can help you to keep it under control and you may have most of them in your kitchen right now! Garlic Garlic is one herb that’s known for helping to… Read More »
Glycemic Index – Benefits and GI Food Ratings
What Is The Glycemic Index? In simple terms, the Glycemic Index or GI of any given food, is the measure given to the effect that any given food has on the concentration of glucose found in the blood – this is known as glycemia. Glycemia means the presence of glucose or levels of glucose in… Read More »
Eat Your Way Towards Losing Weight
What?! You can eat your way to lose weight? This may seem counterintuitive and you may be thinking – “What’s the catch?” Well, there is none. It just boils down to one simple principle of a healthy weight loss plan. You should only eat the right types of foods. The following are just some of… Read More »
Have You Tried Following A Low Carb Diet?
Giving Up Foods High In Carbohydrates Many people who are looking to lose weight, look at following a low carb diet. Foods high in carbohydrates are known to cause weight gain if eaten to excess. Eating low carbs can not only help you to lose weight but can improve your health in many ways. It… Read More »
Healthy Fats Are Good For You
Many people are concerned about eating fats for fear of heart disease and high cholesterol. Plus many are afraid that fat will make them fat. There certainly is no such thing as healthy obesity, but do healthy fats or ‘fatty foods’ exist? Monounsaturated fats are one of these healthy fats. Healthy Fats Are Good For… Read More »
Beans and Lentils To Help Lower Cholesterol Levels [Infographic]
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Lower Cholesterol Levels with Beans and Lentils If you are one of the many people who do not like to eat beans and lentils, maybe you will start putting some beans and lentils on your plate to lower cholesterol. Beans and lentils are also deemed as super foods for better heart health. Read further to… Read More »
Avoiding High Cholesterol Foods
Managing Cholesterol Levels With The Right Diet Most people these days live on a diet filled with high cholesterol foods, not necessarily by choice but because of a matter of convenience. People are just too busy these days to prepare healthy meals and it just so happens that the easiest foods to prepare or to… Read More »
High Blood Pressure Treatment Starts With Your Lifestyle
Healthy Ways to Treat Signs of High Blood Pressure Many people think that taking prescription medication is the best high blood pressure treatment, but studies show that this is not necessarily true. Usually, people who adopt better lifestyle changes (including dietary revisions – following a high blood pressure diet) see improvement in their numbers within… Read More »
