Pregnancy Nutrition Tips
How does food you eat become nutrition for your baby?
After food enters your mouth, it gets digested in your stomach and intestine. Sugars, fatty acids (the building blocks of fats), amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), vitamins, and minerals are absorbed into your bloodstream and travel throughout your body.
As your blood flows across the [...]
The Non-Food Aspects of Weight Loss
There are a few things that you can do besides eating well and exercising that will expedite your physical transformation:
1. Stay positive
Believe that transformation is possible even when you haven’t seen the changes that you want yet. I am sure that you can site many examples in your life where you didn’t expect something to [...]
Artificial Sweeteners Cause Weight Gain
A new study suggests that drinking diet sodas and other soft drinks with artificial sweeteners may lead to weight gain. The reasoning given is that when your taste buds taste sweetness, you body automatically prepares itself for a load of calories. When this isn’t done, it can completely mess up our metabolism.
A Purdue University [...]
Evaluating the Nutritional Value of our Foods
This might seem a scary daunting task for those of us who are just regular food consumers and not registered dieticians or nutritionists. The good news is that there is now a scientific system which grades foods on a level from 1 - 100 in terms of how nutritious and how over-all good they are [...]
No comments5 Myths About Fat
From HealthNewsDigest.com —
For years, people have been advised to cut fat out of their diets, but now, guidelines from the American Heart Association have been revised to recommend that the right type of fats can play an important role in a healthy diet.
Here are five fat myths and the facts to help clear up the [...]