"Eat healthy keep heart healthy"
Submitted by dipti on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 03:59.One way to start improving your heart health immediately is to increase your intake of vegetables and fruit. Eating 5 to 10 servings every day may help reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Eat Healthy to Help Prevent Heart Disease.What kills people most? Heart disease. It’s the No.1 cause of death in the world.You can lower your chances of getting heart disease. One way is to choose foods carefully. For a healthy heart, eat:
• less fat
• less sodium
• fewer calories
• more fiber.
How much fat you need.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 05:15.Too much or too little fat, protine or carbohydrate can create health problems. It is recommended by experts to take right amount of nutrients. Wrong intake can put you at rist of diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
How much fat should you aim for?
Calories/Day Grams of Fat/Day Fat/Day
Women
19-74 Yrs. 18000-20000 40 to 75 grams 8-15 tsp
Vegetarian Nutrition
Submitted by Satish on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 20:38.Plant-based foods are loaded with nutrients to name a few protein, iron, calcium, vitamin D, iodine, omega-3 fatty acids, and zinc.
If you eat a vegetarian diet, the key is simple. Include variety of different foods in your diet. choose your foods from grains, vegetables, fruits nuts, seeds and dairy. On a plant-based diet, you will have the advantage of getting nutrients from sources high in fiber, and low in saturated fat and cholesterol.
Protein
Why Vegetarian?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 19:04.Health
Vegetarians are at lower risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, obesity, and many types of cancers.
Is that enough reasons for switching to vegetarians?
If not here is more
Antibiotics for medical use are becoming ineffective because excessive use of antibiotics, especially in the meat industry, creates super bugs that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It is predicted that we are about to embark upon an era in which antibiotics are useless.
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