Eat Beans To Lower Your Cholesterol

Red beans, black beans, pink beans, green beans-there’s such a selection of beans scattered throughout markets today that it’s almost impossible not to find at least one fresh, frozen, canned or dried variety that will tickle your taste buds.

Yet who would think that anything so colorful and tasty would also be potent enough to reduce cholesterol levels, stabilize blood sugar, reduce appetite and help fight off cancer?

“I think of beans as a broad-based nutrient-rich food”, says Joanne Slavin, professor of nutrition at the University of Minnesota. Read more

Barley: Power Healthy Food

Breakfast of Gladiators

No wonder this grain has a reputation as the original power food. Several thousand years age, Greek gladiators were eating barley for strength and stamina. In fact, the locals dubbed these warriors barley eaters.

Modern-day barley eaters are most likely to envoy these chewy pearls in soups or stews. Read more

Bananas: Nature’s Perfect Fast Food

Eating bananas ain’t monkey business. We’ve known for some time that bananas may also help cure ulcers, lower cholesterol and possibly more.

Potential Healing Power:

• Prevent high blood pressure
• Heal ulcers
• Relieve recurrent heartburn
• Control cholesterol
• Prevent strokes Read more

Low-Fat Heart-Healthy Diet

Oysters, clams, lobster, crab-shellfish evoke the feel of warm sand, sharp breezes and saltwater. Maybe that’s why we love them. And maybe that’s why we’ve increased our consumption of shellfish. Or maybe we’ve simply come to understand how they can contribute to a healthy lifestyle.

Shellfish have negligible amounts of fat and they can be used to replace fatty red meat and other foods that can set the stage for heart disease. Read more

Apples: Crispy Cures

Crisp. Crunchy. Sweet. This burst of juice spurting from a fresh apple brings a mouthful of health-giving nutrients that may help prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol levels and possibly gallstones.

How? The real benefit of apples may be that they put foods that contain cancer-causing agents on a fast track, says Harris Clearfield, director of gastroenterology at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. Read more

Beneficial Effects of B-complex Vitamins

The B complex is like a large family in which each vitamin is a distinctive member. Because B vitamins act together and complete each other, it is preferable to take them in compound form and not to take separately. It is important to understand that each of the vitamins from the B complex needs the others to be effective. In fact, the B-complex acts as a single vitamin, but with a multi-vitamin effect. Furthermore, the B complex is so important for health that it could be compared to the central part of a daisy, the other vitamins coming as the additions that surround it. Read more

Symptoms of Nutritional Deficiencies

If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, then you are probably deficient in one or more essential elements.

-If your skin rough and dry?
Vitamin A.

-Do you suffer from lack of appetite?
A diet rich in B vitamins. Read more

The “Good” and the “Bad” Fats

A fatty food is basically a food containing a lot of fat. Fats can be found in everything that we eat, but certain foods contain more fats than others.

Fats contained in our diet are often blamed for being responsible for several health problems. In fact, a daily intake of fats is essential for the maintenance of good health. They are part of the structure of each of our cells, are a vehicle for vitamin A, D, E and K and produce energy (heat). The problem comes from a diet rich in foods containing “bad” fats and poor in foods containing “good” fats. Read more

Dairy Products : Nearly Perfect Foods

Dairy products are foods made from milk. Milk is also part of the dairy products category. Milk and milk products are good foods for the health of those who can digest them. They contain protein, fats, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, vitamins A, D, E and B-complex vitamins.
 
Milk is a good source of high-quality protein. A cup of milk contains 8 grams of balanced protein-one-fourth of the daily protein needs of a young child and one-eighth to one-sixth that of an adult. Read more