Posts Tagged ‘food’
Forget the lowfat food!
Recently I took my 7 year old daughter to a nutritionist after my pediatrician gave her a scare telling her that she was “very very unhealthy”. We had gone to the pediatrician for a physical, which we do every year before school starts and as usual they took her weight. She weighed 84 lbs when [...]
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Food and Smoking
Food and smoking may be a lot more related than we think. A study published by Duke University Medical Center shows that certain foods can actually enhance the enjoyment one gets out of smoking, while other foods do the reverse. Among the stuff that actually make smoking taste better are coffee, alcohol, red meat, and [...]
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Attacking that sandwich, pasta, salad or chips as fast as you can may seem like the best idea when you’re hungry. But take heed, eating slowly will benefit you in ways that you’ll like and in more ways than one.
1. Better Digestion. Eating slowly means you’re chewing and breaking the food better, which results to [...]
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Oh My Yogurt
One of the simple, accessible, and healthy snacks I like to eat is yogurt. I love how I can indulge in something fruity and semi-sweet without being too scared of the calories. Of course, it also depends a lot on the brand and flavor of the yogurt. For me, I like strawberry and chocolate flavors [...]
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4 Healthy Herbs and Spices
A few posts back I talked about pepper, a great spice that really perks up both our taste buds and our health. Here are four more popular herbs and spices that never fail to jazz up a dish while boosting our bodies in more ways than one.
Ginger
Originating in Asia, ginger is a popular spice that [...]
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Hot and Healthy
If you’re like me who adores anything spicy, I bet you just love incorporating peppers in most of your dishes. Well, the good news for us pepper lovers is that eating a lot of pepper-spiced food does not only satisfy our taste buds – it can also perk up our health in a lot of [...]
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Tags: antioxidant, black pepper, cayenne pepper, food, health, pepper, peppers, spice, spices, spicy, vitamin A, weight loss
Five Benefits of Bananas
Bananas are one of the most common fruits in the world, one of the most accessible, and one of the cheapest as well. But did you know that bananas can give you a lot of benefits that you can take advantage of? Read on to know some of the great perks bananas can give.
1. It [...]
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Health and Lifestyle
Over this past weekend, some was talking to me about choices we have in life. They said that the choices we make are rather a forethought that we simply let happen. The analogy they made was that our lives resemble water, it rolls down a hill and takes the path of least resistance [...]
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Turning Japanese
I cannot remember the exact day I fell in love with Japanese cuisine. Probably since I first tasted it. With all its spiciness, freshness, and exotic, wonderful flavors, it comes as no surprise that Japanese food is one of the most famous cuisines in the globe and that nearly every city you visit has a [...]
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