African mangoes a fruit native to West Africa and a well-established ingredient in traditional medicine in many parts of Cameroon and Guinea has become the latest natural solution to weight loss for Americans and word is spreading elsewhere fast.
Moderate drinking may help prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. Those are the findings of a recent study published in the journal Diabetes.
The Health Professionals follow up study traced the progress of 38,031 men who were initially screened to b
A recent Consumer reports health survey of over 1200 adults has revealed that over 90 percent of the people interviewed believed their diets to be healthy. The survey aimed to capture a snapshot of Americans’ attitudes to their diet. While the results showed that people were making efforts to eat well it also revealed that [...]
A study published 5 years ago in the Journal of nutrition showed Almonds may have a significant role “in blunting the gylcemic and insulin responses of the body when fed with a carbohydrate meal,” according to one of the authors Dr. Cyril Kendall from the University of Toronto.” Subjects in the study were given starchy [...]
Cooking on a regular basis could be the much neglected deciding factor in a healthy lifestyle. An article in the New York times highlights some of the considerable advantages of cooking your meals from scratch rather than relying on ready to eat processed foods. The requirement in terms of time may not be great. A [...]
If you’re anything like me you’ve wondered whether eggs are a healthy choice. The news has been mixed over the years. Once they were the staple of the all American breakfast considered the best way to start your day. Then sometime later on the heels of several studies they were classified as cholesterol laden artery [...]
Mention Beta-carotene and most people will instantly think of carrots. Beta-carotene has long been known to be one of the active ingredients that make those foods that contain it in abundance -like carrots – so good for us. There are not many, however, who are familiar with the other carotene – alpha-carotene. The results of [...]
Everyone by now has heard the results of a recent study that claims just the sight of cooked meat takes the edge of male aggression. We can hear the caveman jokes already followed by some of the tedious explanations of why: A nod to the inner caveman. The reassurance? of seeing the kill prepared and [...]
So if you, like many, think Managing your appetite is just a matter of? self control you’d be wrong. It actually has? more to do with what kind of food group you eat than your innate will power according to Susan Dopart a nutritionist writing in the Huffington Post. Refined carbohydrates stimulate hunger even when [...]
So, you walk into a KFC and order some chicken. To your surprise the server curtly informs you that they’ve run out. They’ve run out! How could they run out of chicken? Chicken is what they do, isn’t it? No it’s not a joke. Specialized franchises will on occasion simply run out of whatever thing [...]
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