Parenting Advices

Nutrition-packed. Independent studies show that organic food has a higher content of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants — sometimes even up to 20 times more than non-organic food! For our body, this means that we get full easily because our body packs in more nutrition with less food.

The whole, organic ingredients like the guava and neem leaves generally have a wider array of healing compounds and additional benefits than their “natural extract” counterparts.

Health and Safety. Many pesticides approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were registered long before extensive research linked these to cancer and other diseases. Now, the EPA considers 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides, and 30% of insecticides as potentially cancer-causing. Consumer Organic food production also bans the use of artificial food additives such as hydrogenated fats which lead to trans fats, phosphoric acid, aspartame, and MSG linked to health problems as diverse as heart disease, osteoporosis, migraines, and hyperactivity.

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Whenever you or your family crave for those chips or mouthwatering snacks you can’t help feeling guilty about that high fat or MSG content. Follow this list of tips of healthy but delightful mini meals:

• If you want gourmet popcorn, try Holy Kettle Corn. No butter and artificial flavor just sugar, salt, and corn oil.
• If you want ice cream, try Chimara Soy Ice Cream. High protein, less calories. Comes in strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.
• If you want healthy popcorn, try Taters Natural-flavored popcorn. You will only have to add salt to taste. No butter.
• If you want metabolism-enhancing juices, try Happy Days juices in orange and grapefruit flavors.
• If you want a refreshing drink of Green tea, try Resensa green tea. Not so sweet yet the natural green tea taste is there.
• Finally, if you want to an alternative to milk, but still get the same good taste, try UFO’s soy milk. It comes in 500- and 800-mL bottles.

Enjoy these guilt-free snacks with your family!

Recent studies suggest that even the most helpful supplements may often be detrimental to one’s health when taken in large doses. Supplements are not food. If these little pills aren’t stuff meals are made of, what are they?

Supplements include substances that are essential for human life — vitamins and minerals. This was explained by Dr. Oakes, who recently published a study analyzing the beliefs on and the reputation of vitamin supplements among grocery shoppers. But can supplements be defined as healthy substitutes for certain foods?

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There has been so much hype on how to lose weight. For most people, the primary goal of it is to look good and be accepted by society. However, the idea of losing weight goes beyond good looks. The medical benefits that it can generate may also be potentially life saving. If one browses through journals, newspapers or gossip newspapers, there has been little information regarding the medical benefits of losing weight. This is the area we all have to be aware of.

Obesity is now considered a disease rather than a physical attribute. It is the root cause of many diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, heart and kidney problems, diabetes, joint pains, and skin diseases. Some of these diseases can even be life threatening.

Once a person starts losing weight, the functions of the different organs in the body begin to improve as well. Take the heart as an example. This is a remarkable organ that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all throughout your lifetime. Excessive fat surrounding this organ will become an obstacle to its regular function, forcing the heart muscles to overwork. An overworked and overloaded heart will inadequately supply blood to our vital organs leading to fatigue, chest discomfort, and the like. As we lose weight, we improve cardiac function and cardiovascular performance.

Cholesterol is always a major concern when it comes to obesity. This is a normal constituent in the body, however, in excess it can be harmful. Cholesterol is derived from the fats we consume from food. Abnormally high amounts in the blood can lead to fatty deposits, narrowing our blood vessels leading to an inadequate supply of blood to our vital organs. This condition is known as arteriosclerosis. By choosing the right food and maintaining the ideal body weight, bad cholesterol is kept at low levels. In the long term, you halt the progression of arterial hardening, it turn, blood circulation in the body is also optimized.

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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This is according to Hippocrates, Father of Medicine some thousand plus years ago. During those times they really didn’t have the drugs we have today, so what they did was rely on natural and healthy fresh foods to cure sickness. And I’m sure a lot of us have experienced our elders giving us homemade herbal drinks and dishes that don’t taste so good but are very effective in relieving aches, pains, colds, and many other illnesses.

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