Category: Health and Nutrition
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The Truth About Creatine: Good or Bad?
Creatine, this supplement has become the most researched supplement in the history of sports supplements and deemed as one of the safest to use. I am always getting asked if creatine works, or if it is good for you; doesn’t it just retain water in your body?
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Diabetes: A Look Into The Growing Health Epidemic, Part 2
This diet along with my medication did not reverse my diabetes, it only ever managed it, and not very well. My A1C would go from 7.5 to 8 at times. Knowing that type 2 diabetes is high blood sugar, this nutrition would keep me a diabetic for ever.
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Diabetes: A Look into the Growing Health Epidemic
From 1990 to 2013, there has been an increase of 70% of diabetes cases in the USA. Every 17 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes and every 6 seconds, someone dies from the disease. How much longer must this go on before we reverse this epidemic?
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Is Red Meat Bad For You? The Facts vs. The Fiction and Everything You Need to Know
For the last 50 years, we been led to believe that red meat is bad for us. We have been told again and again that eating red meat has led to surging rates of heart disease and that the reduction of red meat is more conducive to a healthy diet. But are these beliefs, that…
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Chicken Soup for Your Mind, Body and Soul
With its’ rich aromatic smell and classic flavour profile, chicken soup is an excellent choice for people recovering from illness or lacking appetite. Chicken soup not only contains valuable nutrients and minerals to help your body fight disease, colds, and the flu, but also helps mucus move, clear airways and ease nasal congestion.
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Death By Modern Nutrition: The Dark Side of the 21st Century Diet
Why is it that conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity have seemingly increased out of control in the past century? Is it our sedentary lifestyles? portion sizes? Maybe it is a self-control and self-discipline issue, or perhaps, just maybe, it is something more sinister.
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Eggs: Nature’s Most Underrated Superfood
So how can you decide which type of egg is the best in terms of nutritional value if the colour of the yolk no longer provides clear insight? Well, the nutrition in an egg is determined by how they are raised and what they are fed. Unfortunately, choosing the right type of egg can be…