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Sugar junky

04 Dec

sugarWe’ve all been told that “a spoonful of sugar help out the medicine to goes down.”

However do you aware that there’s already loads of the sugary stuff in the decongestant you are consuming? Or how many within your spaghetti sauce? Or even in the canned vegetables you feed to your children?

Carbohydrates consist of vegetables, fruit, starches (such as bread and potatoes), and obviously, sweet old sugar. As a vital nutrition, carbohydrates act as body’s major supply of both immediate and lasting energy. All types of carbohydrates have “roughly” four calories of energy per gram of its weight. For example, one teaspoon sugar equivalent to 4 grams and 16 calories and sadly, when consumed in great quantities, provides unnecessary calories that would eventually lead toward weight gaining. Not to mention other relating medical problems. On your much loved food labels — you will also need to identify the other varieties, for example honey, high fructose corn syrup, raw sugar, concentrated fruit juice, turbinated sugar, brown sugar, confectioner’s sugar, powdered sugar, dextrose, glucose, molasses, corn syrup, maltose, sucrose, xylitol, or mannitol.

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Food Allergies

27 Sep

Food allergy

Food allergy

An allergic reaction can be put in plain words as the immune system’s failure, an excessive reaction to certain materials.

Human body mistakenly thinks that certain things it had touched sensed or swallowed  is harmful to itself and it releases massive quantities of chemicals, for example histamine to shield itself.
It is assumed that eleven million Americans experiencing food allergies. Those allergies are as diverse as the food itself. Some suffer from the allergic reaction to one food, while others to many kind of food. Read the rest of this entry »

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Coloring Your Food

14 Aug

Colourful Food

Colourful Food

What is the Color of Your Products Means?

We all aware that we are supposed to eat a rainbow of food but do you understand what every color of products actually represents in terms of your health?

Green Products:

These products are the cancer fighters; full of antioxidants they also reduce the possibilities of blindness.

Yellow Products:

These products are full of vitamin C which helps wounds to heal and also protects your skin from the suns damage.

Orange Products:

Full of beta-carotene, orange products helps to build immunity and protect against free radical damage.  Citrus fruits that fall into this type also help enhance oral health.

Red Products:

Full of lycopene, red products are cancer fighters.  These fruits and vegetables also have ellagic acid that helps to prevent DNA damage.  Red products also haves flavonoids which protect cells from free radical damage as well as maintain cognitive function and slow the aging process.

Blue & Purple Products:

These products have anthocyanins which slow aging and protect cells from oxidative damage.

White Products:

This type consist of onion, garlic and shallots which have allicin and quercetin, both which are useful to reduce possibility of heart illness and enhance immune function.

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