What You Need To Know About Cayenne Pepper Origin: Cayenne pepper is a member of the Capsicum annuum family and known fts spicy hot flavor (you’ve been warned!) as well as its health benefits. Form: The ripened red seed pod, dried peppers, powered form, liquid extract, and capsules. Potential Health Benefits and Uses Appetite Control
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What You Need To Know About Oolong Tea Origin: Oolong tea has been produced in China for centuries by harvesting the plant and allowing the leaves to brown in sunlight. Form: Normally in tea bags, loose leaf, or powdered form as well as bottled. Potential Benefits: Weight Loss Cardiovascular Disease Hypertension Dental Health Type 2
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What You Need To Know About Pomegranate Origin: The fruit, Punica granatum, from the pomegranate shrub. Form: Many parts of the fruit are used for human health including: leaf, flower, peel, juice, and seed. Potential Health Benefits: Obesity Cardiovascular health Anti-inflammatory Antioxidant Oral Health Skin Health Side Effects & Interactions: Always consult with a licensed
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What You Need To Know Origin: Juice from the pineapple tree’s fruit. Form: Mainly liquid, though there are dried forms. Potential Health Benefits: Digestive Problems Metabolism Weight Loss Detox Women’s health Joint Health Kidney Health Cardiovascular Health Reduce Skin Aging / Acne Bone growth & maintenance High Cholesterol Immunity Boost Reduced risk of toxic metal
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Most Common Nutritional Deficiencies If we look around America (and many other Developed countries) we see people, on the whole, are well-fed. However, many Americans are not fed well. There are, of course, “food deserts” where nutritional food loses shelf space to beef jerky and beer. However, the most common nutritional deficiencies are not limited
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Diet Improves Heart Health Ok… admittedly the Perry Family has a bias toward The Ohio State University but this is a great article regardless. People have known for millennia that food is medicine and that we can use food to correct some disorders as well as prevent others. Only in the last food decades have
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Popcorn Health Benefits Perhaps it’s just the allure of the weekend speaking but popcorn is a delight! We don’t mean the highly-processed drenched-in-some-goop-that resembles-butter with way too much salt type of popcorn. No. We mean the air-popped, as-Nature-intended popcorn. When prepared appropriately, we even get to enjoy the many popcorn health benefits. Really? Benefits from popcorn?
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Plant Based Diet Can Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk It is readily apparent that a plant based diet can reduce type 2 diabetes risk. Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health promotes a plant based diet for type 2 diabetes and a new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute adds support for a plant based diet. Type
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Atkins’ Influences Dietary Guidelines A leading problem in healthcare decision-making is communication. Conversations are either so littered with medical / scientific jargon that restrict the audience or so obtuse that the concepts are meaningless. Case in point is how atkins’ influences dietary guidelines. Long an opponent of “carbs”, Atkins Nutritionals has its own line of food
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White Red Meats Equally Bad As more people move to a plant-based diet, there is decreasing demand for meats. Many retail eateries have vegetarian / vegan options or can at least prepare meals without meat. Still, many Americans have the opinion that white meat is healthier than red meat. Whether just good marketing by the
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