All Entries Tagged With: "Nutrition"
Why is Fiber Good for You?
In nutrition circles, one often hears “eat fiber, it’s good for you”. But fiber is a carbohydrate and those are supposed to be bad, or at least severely limited. What gives?
The resolution to this dilemma lies in examining more closely just what fiber is and what it does for you.
What Is Fiber?
Fiber is, it’s true, [...]
Why is Fluid Intake and Nutrition Important?
Diets, especially those that focus on weight loss, often concentrate on what to eat. But fluids are a major part of any healthy, balanced diet as well. Runners know this well, but the same guidelines apply to anyone interested in optimal health.
About 60% of the human body is water, muscle tissue almost 70%. An enormous [...]
Why Minerals Are Important for Maintaining a Healthy Body
The phrase ‘vitamins and minerals’ often occurs in nutrition articles. But they have distinct differences. Everyone is familiar with some of the essential vitamins (A, B, C, D and others). But what are the essential minerals and why are they essential?
What are labeled minerals are often elements from the Periodic Table, things like iron (Fe), [...]
Nutrition 101- A Better Understanding of its Importance
In order to optimize your health a good diet is essential. But, with all the fad diets around it can be difficult to know what is ‘good’. Nutrition science to the rescue! Though some things are still controversial, numerous studies reinforce the following basic information.
A healthy diet requires not just items from the four basic [...]
Pros and Cautions Of Vitamins and Supplements
There are a dozen or more vitamins that play an essential role in a wide variety of our bodies’ functions. Getting these from a healthy, balanced diet is theoretically possible. Many actually do. But it can be difficult, especially today when so many are on the go.
Supplements can help fill the gap. Unfortunately, there is [...]
How to Deal With Junk Science The Surrounds Weight Loss, Nutrition, and Dieting
Apart from discussions of the environment, there is nowhere that junk science is more common than in issues surrounding weight loss – nutrition and diet, exercise and health topics in general.
Every month there’s a new claim, often given a coating of respectability by quoting the latest ’study’. But if trained scientists have difficulty deciding what [...]
What Does it Mean to Have a Balanced Diet?
It’s easy to balance a beam. Just put the same weight on both sides of a pivot. You can even lead a balanced life, by having a mixture of activities. But what is a balanced diet?
The same basic idea applies in all cases: not too much of this here, not too little of that there. [...]
