Fiber is an essential part of a healthy diet. High fiber diets have been linked to health benefits such as improved metabolism and heart health. However, as little as 5% of the U.S. population consumes the recommended level of fiber. Fiber supplementation could help close this gap, but the health effects of purified fiber supplements… Continue reading There’s More than One Kind of Fiber
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Does Losing Weight Mean Having to Go Hungry?
For many people, losing weight is synonymous with restriction and sacrifice. In an effort to acquire the body of their dreams, patients obsess over every calorie and cut too many corners, leaving their bodies starved and tired. Malnourishment is not the key to a healthy lifestyle and could be the gateway into difficult health problems.… Continue reading Does Losing Weight Mean Having to Go Hungry?
Four Reasons Your Heart Loves Fiber
You may only think about your fiber intake when you are concerned about bowel regularity. Here are four reasons why fiber is even more important for heart health. It helps keep blood sugar in a healthy range. This is important for everyone, but even more so for those who are overweight or at risk for… Continue reading Four Reasons Your Heart Loves Fiber
How to Take Care of Your Digestive Health
Usually, we don’t pay much attention to our intestinal health until we experience some discomfort that requires a visit to the doctor or a prescription. Since we often focus only on weight and fat loss, we overlook other key factors that are important for our well-being. Several studies have shown that one-third of the world’s… Continue reading How to Take Care of Your Digestive Health
High Fat? Low Fat? The Newest Diet Controversy
It used to be that we avoided eating fat, ignoring everything else. Remember candy ads that boasted how the high sugar treats were “fat free”? Since then we’ve come to realize the dangers of sugar (often found in “fat free foods”) in our diets. The biggest trend in weight loss has many variations—the high-protein Atkins… Continue reading High Fat? Low Fat? The Newest Diet Controversy
Keeping Your Gut in Check
Here, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a primer on how your gut functions and what you can do to get it working its best. Your digestive system is busy. When you eat something, your food takes a twisty trip that starts with being chewed up and ends with you going to the bathroom.… Continue reading Keeping Your Gut in Check
How to Stop Constipation with a Few Simple Adjustments to Your Diet
Constipation is one of the most common digestive complaints, affecting around 42 million people in the U.S, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This common condition is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements per week, and having bowel movements that are hard, dry and small, making them difficult to pass.… Continue reading How to Stop Constipation with a Few Simple Adjustments to Your Diet
5 Health Benefits of Apples
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? Well, there are definitely health benefits to eating apples! Stay Regular: One medium apple contains over 4 grams of fiber. With the big meals and rich foods of the holiday season, fiber is essential to keeping you regular and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels … Continue reading 5 Health Benefits of Apples
How to Stop Constipation with Adjustments to Your Diet
Constipation is one of the most common digestive complaints, affecting around 42 million people in the U.S, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This common condition is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements per week, and having bowel movements that are hard, dry and small, making them difficult to pass.… Continue reading How to Stop Constipation with Adjustments to Your Diet
Fiber Intake Tied to Successful Aging
Most people know that a diet high in fiber helps to keep us “regular.” Now Australian researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research have uncovered a surprising benefit of this often-undervalued dietary component. The study, published in April 2016 in The Journals of Gerontology, reports that eating the right amount of fiber from breads,… Continue reading Fiber Intake Tied to Successful Aging
“Fruits and Vegetables” Isn’t One Thing
How many times have you heard someone say, “Eat your fruits and vegetables”, as if it is one single category of food? Even the government has fruits and vegetables sharing a single level on their 4-level Food Guide Pyramid. But are they really that similar, and seemingly interchangeable? The answer? It depends. How you serve… Continue reading “Fruits and Vegetables” Isn’t One Thing