Archive for the 'Food habits' Category

High Protein Diet

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

High protein diet is a common recommendation for body builders and athletes or sportspersons who need to increase their muscle weight and decrease body fat. It is also prescribed for people suffering from protein deficiency or those who want to lose weight. A high protein diet ensures that you have more energy throughout the day. [...]

Meal replacement bars

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Meal replacement bars have become extremely popular off late with their exalted virtue of zero fat content. However, it would be foolish to equate zero fat with zero calories as these meal bars provide adequate calories and nutrition that a person should get per meal. These are easily available in gyms and health clubs and [...]

Are Genetically Modified Foods Healthy?

Monday, June 7th, 2010

The question, are genetically modified food healthy? Has being ask by many people and am here to help you to get closer to the answer to that question. In as much as you might be think that the genetically modified food may pose a risk to your health, you may have being consuming this food [...]

Getting Enough Vitamin C in your Diet

Monday, May 31st, 2010

In order to have a health immune system your diet should have enough vitamin C, as it contributes greatly to having a strong immune system. Great source of vitamin c are fruits like citrus, berries and strawberries, other sources of vitamin c are vegetables, pepper and tomatoes. If your body is not getting enough vitamin [...]

5 Belly Fat Burning Foods

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Have you being trying to loose that fat belly doing sit up and all kinds of exercise but you still don’t get the desired results, well am here to give you the solution to this problem. Even if you exercise several hours a day and still continue to consume foods that are filled with fat, [...]

Choosing foods that help you sleep

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Having trouble sleeping at night? You come home tied for work hoping to get an good night rest but instead you end up having a tough time falling a sleep! Well this could be caused by the type of food you eat just before you tack yourself into bed. Certain food you consumer such as [...]

5 Healthy Ways To Add Fish To Your Diet

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Omega 3 fish oil is one of the essential nutrients found in fish products and helps in maintaining a healthy nervous system. They are important in nerve transmission because during the aging process there is the degeneration of nerves that is the main cause of diseases for the elderly. In addition, taking the right amounts [...]

Health Tips For Vegetarians

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Since you are already aware of the benefits of eating a balance diet, it might be very difficult for vegans and vegetarians to have this because most of the foods that contain these components are derived from animals such as meat and eggs. This is however challenging for vegetarians because they have limited sources of [...]

Protein In The Vegetarian Diet

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

It might seem difficult for vegetarians to find a source of protein in their diet but this is not a cause to despair since there are tons of tasty protein sources for you. Unlike the vegetarians, the non-vegetarians have several sources of proteins such as meat which is the main source but if you are [...]

Advice For New Vegetarians

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

There are diverse variations of the lifestyle of vegetarians. There are those vegetarians who do not eat meat but they could eat other animal products like eggs and vegans and there are those that do not eat anything that is produced by an animal, which includes even honey. There are several benefits that one gets [...]