Does Fiber Absorb Fat
There is information that dietary fiber absorbs some of the fat that would normally be absorbed by the body. If this is true, is it better for one to eat a salad before or after a main meal? Does eating a salad after a meal push the material through the digestive system faster?
The Best Way To Change Bad Nutrition Habits
The best way to change your bad nutrition habits is to do it very slowly. If you try to change everything all at once, it will seem too overwhelming and hard to maintain. Try changing one thing at a time.
Do Whole Grains Leave A Bad Taste In Your Mouth?
Would you be surprised to learn that you don’t have to eat dry, bland, or just plain yucky breads with little annoying seeds in them, nor do you need to eat lumpy, tasteless porridge or oatmeal. Unless you actually enjoy those types of foods.
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Aloe Vera, Harmful, or Healthy?
Natural Aloe Vera has long been used as a topical treatment for minor burns, skin injuries, and rashes. But did you know that it has also been used to treat internal ailments and disease? I didn’t know that Aloe had any health benefits; I was under the misguided assumption that ingesting Aloe would be toxic to my health. In fact, Aloe Vera is listed in some places as a poisonous houseplant.
Everything You Need To Know About Guarana
Guarana is a native climbing evergreen vine found in the Amazon. It is a berry that has many uses, including increasing fat-burning ability and energy.
Guarana soft drinks are wildly popular in Brazil, and have been marketed in other countries around the world as energy drinks. It comes in other forms, including chocolate bars, chewing gum, powder, syrup and capsules. These products might be difficult to find outside of the Brazilian marketplace but can be found in some health food stores in the United States.
Can Seaweed Fulfill Our Every Nutritional Need?
New scientific research suggests that seaweed might just be the answer to a great many health and nutrition questions.
For thousands of years, in areas of the world where people have obtained the majority of their food from the oceans, seaweed has always been an important part of their diet.
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How Does Our Body Use Food For Nutrients
When a person eats food, the process of how the body gets its nutrients is called digestion. This breaks food down into its respective nutrients.
Carbohydrates get broken down into single units of sugars, protein into amino acids and fats into fatty acids. This process of receiving nutrients actually starts when you chew the food. Then the food travels down into the stomach through the esophagus where it is liquefied by stomach acids. When the food reaches your small intestines, this is where the nutrient harvesting begins.
Does Food Lose Nutrients Over Time
The answer to this question depends on the type of food.
One example is a drink product that claims to have Vitamin C in it. The manufacturer of this drink has to put an extra amount of that vitamin in the product because some of the vitamins will deteriorate over a period of time. This depends on the temperature of the storage of the product. The higher the temperature or the longer the storage time, the more of the vitamin will end up deteriorating.
How Important is Nutrition, Really?
If I eat well, will I be well? Really, how important is nutrition?
Eating well is critical to living well. Everyone has heard the old saying, “you are what you eat”. And in today’s society, that would mean that we are just walking, talking chemical testing facilities. Unless we use our minds to decide what goes into our mouths. If we feed enough healthy food to our bodies, it will eventually stop craving all those delicious things that do us more harm than good.
Put a Lot of Color in Your Diet
Mother Nature must have known that people like color, so she made the most nutritious foods the most colorful. Fruits and vegetables that have the brightest, the darkest, and the most vivid colors hold the most vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.