Nutrition

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Food provides the energy and nutrients you need to be healthy. Nutrients include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and water.
Learning to eat nutritiously is not hard. The key is to:

  • Eat a variety of foods, including vegetables, fruits and whole-grain products
  • Eat lean meats, poultry, fish, beans and low-fat dairy products
  • Drink lots of water
  • Go easy on the salt, sugar, alcohol, saturated fat and trans fat

Saturated fats are usually fats that come from animals. Look for trans fat on the labels of processed foods, margarines and shortenings.

 
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  • Tea steeped in health benefits 11.17.08 After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage around the world.
  • Halloween treats: The horror, the horror! 10.22.08 Not that any of us will likely do anything about it, but just for giggles, the News-Review Health Staff decided to look into the calorie and fat content of some favored Halloween treats.
  • Liver Cleansing: Beneficial or Harmful? 10.22.08 Michael, 40, of Petoskey, actually counts the hundreds of small gallstones that are deposited in his commode after his yearly round of “liver cleansing.”
  • Whole grains, and reading food labels 10.03.08 Eating grains, especially whole grains, provides health benefits. People who eat whole grains as part of a healthy diet have a reduced risk of some chronic diseases.
  • Vegetable detective: Fresh, frozen or canned? 09.25.08 If the sound of the can opener is more prevalent at home than the swish of the vegetable peeler, take heart: Canned vegetables are better than no vegetables, and any effort to get children to eat fruit and veggies can encourage healthful family eating hab
  • How Much Protein Do You Need? 08.15.08 The idea of eating more protein has gained popularity in the past few years.
  • Keeping Blood Cholesterol in Check 08.15.08 It’s important to learn what cholesterol is, what it does in your body and why you need to make sure too much isn’t flowing in your blood.
  • The Role of Diet in Metabolic Syndrome 07.25.08 A new study has implicated meat, fried food and, surprisingly, diet soda in the development of metabolic syndrome.
  • Herbs at a Glance: Ginger 07.25.08 Ginger is a tropical plant that has green-purple flowers and an aromatic underground stem.
  • Antioxidants and Cancer Prevention: Fact Sheet 07.25.08 Antioxidants are substances that may protect cells from the damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals.
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  • UK Fast Food Chains Commit To Healthier Eating The big six fast food chains seen on high streets in the UK: Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Nando's, Subway and Wimpy have promised to make changes that make it easier for people to eat healthy restaurant meals. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants to see more fruit, vegetables and salad on menus and for less dominance of fried food.
  • Childhood Obesity In The USA Would Be Reversed If Fast Food TV Advertising Were Banned, Says Study A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax deductibility associated with television advertising would result in a reduction of childhood obesity, though in smaller numbers.
  • Diabetes I And II In Mouse Model Treated By Garlic Chemical Tablet A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says. When Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues from the Suzuka University of Medical Science, Japan, gave the drug orally to type I diabetic mice, they found it reduced blood glucose levels.
  • A Healthy Diet On A Slim Food Budget-Tips From Rush University Medical Center In lean economic times, we may need to tighten our food budgets, but it is important to do so wisely. Processed foods are definitely cheap. A dollar buys 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips, but only 250 calories of carrots; or 875 calories of soda, but only 170 calories of orange juice. Filling up on cookies and soda, however, is a prescription for weight gain, cardiac disease, and other health problems.
  • Higher Protein Meals Help Keep The Fat Away A low kilojoule diet made up of higher protein meals improves the ability to burn fat among overweight and obese people and may be the key to shedding excess kilos, according to new Australian research. The study, in Nutrition&Dietetics published by Wiley-Blackwell, found higher protein meals may have a subtle fat-burning effect in overweight or obese people.

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