Category: nutrition

Beans: The Ideal Carbohydrate

Beans Are Nutritionally Unique Beans and other legumes (such as lentils and split peas) are the ideal starchy food. When many people think of high-fiber, starch-containing foods, they think of whole grains, which are healthful foods, but beans are nutritionally superior. Beans and other legumes have uniquely high levels of fiber and resistant starch, carbohydrates…


Possible Food Shortages Have You Worried?

Depending on where you live, there may be food shortages as we head into summer. Now is a perfect time to stock up on fresh local produce as the growing season bursts forth. Most of us don’t think twice about going to the store when we need groceries. We are used to buying what we…


A Common Nutritional Supplement Can Cause Cancer and Heart Damage

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued recommendations against the use of two nutritional supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer. They are beta-carotene and vitamin E. Specifically, beta-carotene even has the risk of causing cancer. This guide has caused a stir. Is it a waste of money and harmful to buy health…


Fresh Flavors of Summer to Help You Feel Good and Stay Healthy

Fresh summer food really does it all. It tastes great, lends itself easily to any situation, and helps you stay cool, hydrated, and healthy.\ Aside from every color in the rainbow, fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables are a great source of fiber, phytonutrients, antioxidants, and compounds that can help fight inflammation to keep you feeling…


17 Ways to Eat Summer Fruits

Summer fruits are typically cold and refreshing and can provide just the right amount of sweetness to keep those taste buds satisfied on a hot and humid day. In-season summer fruits can include mangoes, coconuts, pears, strawberries, peaches, and assorted other berries like raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries. These fruits all provide a variety of health…


What You Eat First During Meals Can Lower Glucose by 40%

The order that you consume the proteins, fats and carbohydrates in your meal matters, with significant differences found when carbs are consumed first versus last. Which is better for your metabolic health? STORY AT-A-GLANCE You can consume the same foods — same calories, same total carbs, same nutrients — and have drastically different metabolic effects…


What You Eat First During Meals Can Lower Glucose by 40 Percent

The order that you consume the proteins, fats and carbohydrates in your meal matters, with significant differences found when carbs are consumed first versus last. Which is better for your metabolic health? STORY AT-A-GLANCE You can consume the same foods — same calories, same total carbs, same nutrients — and have drastically different metabolic effects…


5 Food-Medicines That Could Quite Possibly Save Your Life

Some of the most powerful medicines on the planet are masquerading as foods and spices. While they do not lend themselves to being patented, nor will multi-billion dollar human clinical trials ever be funded to prove them efficacious, they have been used since time immemorial to both nourish our bodies and to prevent and treat disease. So…


AntiCancer Cranberry Juice Recipe

Recipe for DIY (do-it-yourself) whole food cranberry cocktail with 25 times fewer calories and at least 8 times the phytonutrient content. Republished from GreenMedInfo.com


Non-Perishable ‘Miracle’ Apples Grown by Elderly Man Reveals the Secret to Health

Japanese nutritionist Tomoko Wakasugi doesn’t only enjoy longevity, but also has never seen a doctor. Now in her 80, she has a full head of healthy hair and strong teeth, and she is able to give lectures all over Japan. Wakasugi grows her own vegetables year-round and is against eating inorganic produce grown with chemical…