Why Fake Food Makes Us Fat
Nutrients are required to feed the bodies processes and to provide strength for physical movement and activity. The body tunes itself to the source of these nutrients by way of taste or smell recognition. This is interpreted in the body as cravings for specific foods…
October 16, 2010
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Healthy Eating – The Building Blocks of Organic Food
The core building blocks of food are Sugars, Starch and oil. These three things provide our basic carbon and energy requirements. Different plants have unique levels and available proportions of these essential building blocks…
August 1, 2010
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Healthy Eating – Vegetable Combination’s – Carrots, Potatoes and Peas
The best nutrition can be obtained in our diets by using the right combinations of vegetables. It is often recommended we eat one white vegetable, one green vegetable and one orange vegetable with each main meal. This gives us a good selection of nutrients, minerals and antioxidants from within the fruit and vegetable food group. Lets look at Carrots, Potatoes and Peas…
July 13, 2010
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Healthy Eating – The Benefits of Herbs – Mint
All mints have a pleasant aroma, though some may be considered overly pungent. Mint is perennial in habit and is typically cut back hard at the end of its growing season. Mints are known to enjoy wet growing seasons and moist soils. Despite this they can do well in varied climatic conditions…
June 27, 2010
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Healthy Eating – The benefits of Rhubarb
Rhubarb is botanically recognised as Rheum rhabarbarum and is a member of the Polygonaceae family. The leaves of Rhubarb are toxic but they are also bitter. It is thought that for the amount needed to produce toxic effect one could not handle eating it at that level. Needless to say the leaves of Rhubarb are not edible…
June 23, 2010
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Healthy Eating – Root Solution – Potato
The Potato is from the Solanaceae family. It is botanically recognised as Solanum tuberosum. The Potato is closely related to Tomatoes, Nicotinia and Deadly Nightshade. The Potato has several varieties and is recognised as the fourth largest crop in the world…
June 20, 2010
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Healthy Eating – 5 Reasons why Dieting does not work long term
Dieting and Weight loss is a huge industry worth billions of dollars each year. Thousands of programs and machines are on offer with promises of losing inches, reduction in clothes size or shedding of kilos…
June 18, 2010
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Healthy Eating – Berry Power – Kiwi Fruit (Chinese Gooseberry)
The Kiwi Fruit or Chinese Gooseberry is botanically recognised as Actinidia deliciosa of the Family Actinidiaceae. Despite its commonly recognised name (Kiwi Fruit) it is a Native of China. There are many hybrids of the Kiwi Fruit all bred for their own individual characteristics…
June 16, 2010
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