There are many benefits of a natural food diet without any pills or prepackaged foods. A natural diet is great for your health. You consume foods from all the food groups and meet all your daily dietary needs. Each food group does something beneficial for your health so it is important to include all four food groups in your diet to lose weight.


Benefits of A Natural Diet To Lose Weight Include:

•     There are no pills or pre packaged foods. When you take pills you are not learning to chan...

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Healthy eating requires you to eat a number of nutrients every day. In fact, there are 40 different nutrients you need to ingest in order to keep your body healthy.Healthy eating plans are an essential component to both health and a healthy weight. Anyone whose weight has yo-yo'd knows how a poorly established weight loss diet can back fire. After months of deprivation, fighting cravings and suffering with hunger you may reach your goal weight only to celebrate with french fries. This resets ...
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Fruits For Healthy Living

Researchers have been trying to make connections between certain types of fruit juices and whole fruits.  In previous years people were mostly concerned with the vitamin C content, but now the focus is directed toward expanding their expectations of the benefits of certain fruits.


Potassium from bananas can help lower risk of stroke.

Cranberries have been used to alleviate the symptoms of urinary tract infections for years.  I have found effective relief when feeling v...
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A Healthy Eating Plan - 1st Try at Homemade Jam

A healthy eating plan can include sugary foods in moderation, and I wanted to discuss my first try at homemade jam. It's officially harvest season in New York, and at last week's farmers market we stocked up on so many fruits and vegetables that I had to take pictures of our beautiful bounty! I also check out a different farm stand around our town every week, and last week I bought two quarts of peaches.


Peaches are such a delicious healthy family...
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Nutrition for Kids with ADD

A healthy diet is important for all children and adults but it is even more important for those who suffer Attention Deficit Disorder, according to Dr. Frank Lawlis, author of The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now. Eating the right foods maximizes concentration, learning capacity and self-control, and poor nutrition choices can exacerbate symptoms of ADD or cause medical problems.


Following are some of the foods that have been investigated and found to have nega...
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MRT Testing Is Helpful For Food Intolerance And Sensitivity That Is Not Caused By Food Allergies

Food intolerance and sensitivity reactions that are not due to an allergy:

Certain foods, additives and chemicals are capable of triggering immune reactions that are not due to allergies. Chemicals mediators released by the immune system are capable of producing a variety of body reactions and symptoms. Avoiding foods that produce such reactions is suppose to resolve or at least significantly improv...
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Low Carb Diets for Weight Loss and ALCAT Testing

Low carb diets have been proven to be effective tools for weight loss. While working at the Atkins Center and subsequently in private practice with The Hamptons Diet, we found the best weight loss results were achieved when we also tested our patients for food sensitivities using the ALCAT test.

The benefit of a low carb diet is that the pancreas does not have to produce as much insulin since there is less blood glucose to transport into the cell...
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Life

Imagine having your blood drawn and tested to determine if what you eat is causing you to be overweight (even if you do not overeat). Perhaps what you are eating is triggering your migraines, ADHD, arthritis, digestive problems, gastro intestinal problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, IBS, eczema, sinus problems, allergies and/or another condition(s). Eating healthy (as in caloric intake) is one thing; but eating in accorda...
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Today's adults are learning first hand about yesterday's incorrect perception that the person with a dark tan was healthier, probably wealthier and certainly more successful. Growing public awareness that certain kinds of skin cancers are directly attributed to overexposure to Ultra-Violet rays from sunlight has changed this perception. More and more people, young and old, male as well as female, are applying remedies on their skin to block the sun's rays instead of attract them.

The sun not o...
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Discretionary Fortification Of Junk Food With Vitamin And Mineral Could Be Approved By Health Canada

Health Canada considers permitting vitamin and mineral (iron, calcium etc.) additives in high-calorie food products of all sorts, such as potato chips, energy bars, fruit flavored drinks. However dieticians and other health professionals caution that those products continue to be fortified junk food and that the little added nutritional value will boost consumption and enhance problems of obesi...
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