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• Advertising vs. Good Eating Habits
  I know we talk a lot about the effect of our eating habits on our overall health, what we don't mention is the impact television and advertising has had on our eating habits. Until the arrival of tv,
  
  
• Are Cereals Good For Us?
  Cereal started out plain and was not tasty. Then ingenious cereal manufacturer added sugar and all the kids loved the way the cereal tasted. It was a wonderful invention that boosted sales of cereal
  
  
• Breathing, Exercise and Eating
  Having gone through several diet and exercise programs, I am convinced about the connection that the elements of breathing, exercise and eating share. Since I have however, received quite an
  
  
• Do We Need Water to Be Healthy?
  Your body is 98% water? Finding this fact hard to believe? I did, and then I stopped to really think about it. Most all of our body fluids are water, and many of our organs are mostly water. Do you
  
  
• Do We Teach Our Kids Bad Food Habits?
  We all read the articles about proper nutrition and our health, and we make the association between eating right and living longer, more healthful lives. But we don't practice what we read. We
  
  
• Eating for Life
  As a matter of course, all responsible persons should take the time to educate themselves, and their children, about the benefits of healthy eating. Learning to eat for life in a health conscious way
  
  
• Eating for Your Age
  . The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. And the
  
  
• Eating Habits: What We Learn as We Live
  It's 7:00 am, and you're late for work. You decide to just simply skip breakfast, and have a snack later, around midmorning. Your kids decide they don't want breakfast, either. Lunchtime arrives and
  
  
• Food Labels: Fact or Fiction
  Up until the last twenty years or so, manufacturer's weren't held accountable for their process, or the additives they put into your food. Then we began the health revolution, and suddenly everyone
  
  
• Fruit, Vegetables and Health
  . During our teenage years, most of us don't even care if we're eating right, or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits. As we age, however, we do begin to notice the effects of
  
  
• Healthier Gender: Man vs. Woman?
  Who is healthier? Man or woman? Study after study has been done to determine the answer to this question. Time after time, the results do not point to a clear winner. Have we stopped to question why
  
  
• Healthy Food Fast
  Places like McDonald's and Hardee's now offer carbohydrate conscious consumers other options for their hamburger choices. You can order with or without the bun. Fruit and yogurt choices now appear on
  
  
• Healthy, Great Tasting Food Alternatives
  Fruits and vegetables are a great place to start. There are so many choices in the filed of fruits and vegetables, that being picky isn't even a consideration here. It does not matter where your
  
  
• How Does Our Food Intake Affect Our Health?
  . We can examine some of the better foods, and offer advice as to what particular formulas make us the healthiest on average. On average, you need an hour of exercise and enough servings from all
  
  
• How Much is Enough?
  . As you study the food pyramid published by the USDA, we can examine some of the better foods, and try to decide what particular formulas make us the healthiest on average. The average person needs
  
  
• How to Eat Right in 10 Minutes
  So how do you make healthy food choices, when you only have fifteen minutes to prepare your meals? Well, the first thing you should realize is that quite often, healthy choices do not necessarily
  
  
• Less Food A Healthier You
  . The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. And the
  
  
• Lower Fat Means Higher Carbs
  Over the last thirty years, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of lowering our fat intake. This was a direct result of the information published by the
  
  
• Lowering Your Calorie Intake, Eating Healthier
  . The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. And the
  
  
• Metabolism and Eating Habits
  Each person's metabolism is unique to that individual. No two people metabolize food at the same rate therefore no two people have the metabolism. We all use our calories at different rates, with
  
  
• More Fat, Less Carbs : Why what have learnt was wrong!
  Over three decades, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of lowering our fat intake. This was a direct result of the information published by the government that
  
  
• Nutrition & Healthy Diet Tips
  Readabout's Healthy Eating Guide volume II completes our unique exploration of the human digestive system and present a different view to the whole business of healthy diet and nutrition tips.
  
  
• Nutrition and Healthy Eating
  Nutrition means that we take in what we need to maintain our body's healthy state. Nutrition become an important word with the USDA describing our daily food requirements, and the FDA's disclosure of
  
  
• Nutrition: The Bottom Line
  Nutrition can be defined as the need to take in what we need to maintain our body's healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food
  
  
• Our Daily Food Intake Requirements
  What do we really need as far as daily food intake? Are we determining this need based on calorie needs alone, or do we factor in our vitamin and mineral needs? If you were to ask the average person,
  
  
• Our National Obesity Epidemic
  Everyday you see news and information that bring to the front our problem with our weight. It is a national problem. It's not just your older sedentary population; it's not just your overworked
  
  
• The ABC's of Eating
  ABC of Eating would be an excellent title for a nutrition course giving us information on food, describing the pros and cons of various food groups and helping us discover what our individual needs
  
  
• The Food Pyramid: Divine Truth?
  Is the USDA's guidelines for our daily food requirements and the
  
  
• The Four Food Groups
  In the new food group pyramid, there are officially five food groups. Oils and butters are now included as a food group; but for the purpose of this paper, we are still going to consider ourselves to
  
  
• The Lesson We Learned from Carbs
  Over the last three decades, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of lowering our fat intake by raising our carbohydrate intake. This belief was a direct result
  
  
• The Role of Water in our digestive system.
  What happens to the food and water as they enter our digestive system? They are both necessary components of the digestive process. Our bodies need the water to effectively digest food and perform
  
  
• The Young People and Obesity
  Young people today face not only the challenge of acquiring an education, learning to interact with their peers, and surviving their parents, but they must also escape the national epidemic of
  
  
• To Eat, or Not to Eat?
  To eat or not to eat? This is a question that confronts us daily, as we go from home to work, work to home, and back again. We have designated times for breakfast and lunch. Dinner would be the only
  
  
• Unhealthy Eating Contributes to Health Disorders
  . During our teen years, most of us don't even care if we're eating right, or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits. As we age, however, we do begin to notice the effects of
  
  
• Vegetables: The Best and The Worst
  . In our younger days, most of us don't even care if we're eating right, or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits. As we age, however, we do begin to notice the effects of
  
  
• Vegetables: The Healthier Snack
  Beside exercise, our eating habits affect our health to a high degree. What about our food intake? What choices do we have to make eating a healthier occurrence? Vegetables are a great place to
  
  
• Vitamins, The Forgotten Element
  Although vitamins and minerals are more readily available to us than ever before, and we're still no better equipped to actually determine what we need to take, than we were forty years ago. Just
  
  
• Water and Healthy Eating
  To perform all the necessary functions we ask of it each day, our bodies need water to effectively digest food. You don't stop to realize what we ask of this marvelous machine, we just take it for
  
  
• What About Salads?
  . Salads come in all sorts of styles, combinations, and are served with so many various toppings, that you could probably find a different salad for every day of the month. In case you're not a
  
  
• What Do We Really Need to Eat?
  Modern food diet consists mostly of meat and starch. The fast food drive thru at your local burger joint doesn't offer a menu of fresh fruit and vegetables. We've become a nation of massive
  
  
• What Foods Make Us Healthy?
  For our optimal health, we must take the foods of the food pyramid. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. So must the
  
  
• What Happens to Those Carbs Once Inside?
  A person consuming a meal high in carbohydrate content often becomes sleepy. Have you ever noticed that? Have you ever questioned why? Most of the effect comes from elevated blood sugar levels, this
  
  
• What Is a Calorie?
  . The dictionary definition of a calorie is a unit of heat energy. It is also defined as a unit of energy-producing potential equal to the amount of heat that is contained in food and released upon
  
  
• What is Metabolism?
  and use of food. In reference to the case in point it is our ability to utilize our food to the fullest extent. The body's metabolism is a unique process for each individual person. No two people
  
  
• You Are What You Eat, Right?
  Everyone has heard your mother say,
  
  
• Your Muscle, Your Fat and Your Energy Level
  The greatest results in raising our metabolism come from exercise and building our muscle mass, while reducing our body fat. Adding more muscle to the body, in turn causes us to burn more calories,