Center For Balanced Health
Friday, October 4, 2019
Do you know about Selenium?
Monday, July 15, 2019
Eat non-processed foods
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Friday, July 12, 2019
Good Sources of Protein
Don't Restrict Fats
Monday, December 17, 2018
Nutrient Levels are Dropping
According to research done at Iowa University, typical fruit or vegetable travels thousands of miles over several days to get from the farm where it was grown and harvested to the supermarket. Produce grown in Chile, Mexico, China, and other countries travel even farther. Levels of many vitamins and antioxidants drop as soon as a fruit or vegetable is picked. The longer it takes to go from stem to store, the less nutritious your produce. To ensure that some varieties of fruits and vegetables are not overripe when they reach the store, farmers pick them earlier in the ripening cycle. The less ripe a fruit or vegetable is at harvest, the fewer nutrients it will contain.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Enliven Meals with Olives
Olives are such a nutritional power-house that we’ve added them to your daily food plan right from the start. They are great snack foods. Three-quarters of the caloric content from olives comes from healthful monounsaturated fat that can lower levels of bad LDL cholesterol and raise good. Olives are a rich source of vitamin E, a fat-soluble antioxidant that disarms dangerous free radicals and help prevent colon cancer. The polyphenols and flavonoids in olives fight inflammation in the body, which can relieve the symptoms of asthma and arthritis.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Eat a heart-healthy diet
Limiting certain fats you eat is important to a heart-healthy diet. Of the types of fat — saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fat — try to limit or avoid saturated fat and trans fat. Aim to keep saturated fat to 5 or 6 percent of your daily calories. And try to keep trans fat out of your diet altogether.
Major sources of saturated fat include:
-Red meat
-Full-fat dairy products
-Coconut and palm oils
Sources of trans fat include:
-Deep-fried fast foods
-Bakery products
-Packaged snack foods
-Margarines
-Crackers, chips and cookies
If the nutrition label has the term “partially hydrogenated” or “hydrogenated,” it means that product contains trans fat.