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Archive for August, 2010

We have all heard the term “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. But why is it the most important meal of the day? Click on the link to find out why breakfast is so important and why you should eat it everyday.

Kids Need Their Morning Meal
While adults need to eat breakfast each day to perform their best, kids need it even more. Their growing bodies and developing brains rely heavily on the regular intake of food. When kids skip breakfast, they can end up going for as long as eighteen hours without food, and this period of semistarvation can create a lot of physical, intellectual, and behavioral problems for them.

Importance of Healthy Breakfast: Why Skipping Is Harmful

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Most super foods even though they are extremely good for you, don’t taste all that great. But there are a few everyday super foods that often go unnoticed, that also taste great and can be put into many types of different meals. Click on one of the links to find out what the ten everyday super foods are.

If only there were some kind of potion or pill that had everything you needed for weight loss and good health. Unfortunately, no such pill exists, but there is a solution — something that not only promotes wellness and weight control but tastes good, too. These multitasking "super foods" provide multiple disease-fighting nutrients, fill you up so you can enjoy plenty of food without excess calories, and are easy to include in everyday meals. After all, what good is a super food that is hard to find, difficult to prepare, and the kids won’t eat?

List of 10 Super Foods for Your Diet

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There are tons of myths about vitamin supplements. Which myths are true and which ones aren’t? Click on the link to find tons of myths about vitamin supplements and information about why each myth is true or not.

There are enough myths around vitamins and vitamin supplements to make an ancient Greek blush, and it’s easy to see why.

We all know that vitamins and minerals are essential to good health — it says so right there on the cereal box. And we live in the more-is-better era of Hummers, Big Gulps, and McMansions. Which raises the obvious question: if taking 100% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of, say, vitamin C is good enough to keep us going through the day, then why shouldn’t taking 1,000% be enough to melt our fat, cure our blues, and let us leap tall buildings in a single bound?

Choosing Vitamin and Mineral Supplements and Avoiding Taking Too Many

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Do you know how much meat you should eat a day? Or how many fruits or vegetables you should eat daily? Will, here are a couple different types of food pyramids. Each food pyramid is made for different types of people. 

Looking for some solid advice on what to eat? The United States Department of Agriculture and the Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust have designed food pyramids guidelines on what kinds of food to choose and how many servings to eat to help you plan your daily diet.

Food Pyramid

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A lot of different types of toxins can get inside of your body. But how exactly do you get rid of those toxins? Here are seven simple and quick ways (some of which you may all ready be doing) to rid your body of toxins.

We live in a toxic world. Whether you live next to an oil refinery or on a pristine mountaintop in the Rockies, you carry environmental toxins in your tissues. From heavy metals like arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium, emitted from smokestacks and vehicle exhaust, to pesticides, fertilizers, and PCB’s released into rivers and soil, and phthalates that off-gas from household plastic products, we are all swimming in a soup of toxic chemicals.

7 Strategies for Detoxing Your Body

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